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12-20-2010, 07:49 AM
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I was heart-broken when 'fat bastard' my old LMB passed on. I haven't again owned a fish with near as much heart and audacity but my current bicolour tries his best. Sorry to hear you lost a fav Lance.
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01-09-2011, 10:57 PM
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Just flooded my garage again, for the second time in less than 2 weeks.
 The first time was equipment failure; this time was pure idiocy. I have a 55g SW reservoir with a bulkhead to a Mag 7. For water changes I run a hose from the Mag to the sump (20' run). The hose is coiled and hung on the wall on a small hose reel. The reel broke for some reason and the hose fell to the floor siphoning about 25 gallons of SW all over the garage floor. So now I simply hang the hose on a large hook screwed into a wall stud. Works great except for when you are too lazy to coil the hose and just hang it over the hook. Of course it fell off and siphoned water all over again. Luckily the garage is a cement floor and 6" lower than the door to the house or I'd be in serious trouble with the wifey.
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01-09-2011, 11:47 PM
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I feel your pain man, i flooded the house 3 times in 2 weeks about 2 months ago. Twice in the basement and once upstairs where the tank is when I had a Ato back syphon from the sump and it put about 8 gallons of salty kalk water onto the hardwood and out into the carpeted hallway.
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01-10-2011, 12:12 AM
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01-10-2011, 02:23 AM
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01-10-2011, 02:40 AM
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glad to hear it wasn't a complete disaster!
Yesterday i was pumping some RO water from the basement to my top off reservoir under the tank. I stood there for a minute wondering why no water was coming out of the hose.. d'oh!! The water was being pumped into the furnace room because I forgot to hook up the hose to the pump.
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01-13-2011, 11:46 PM
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I swear my captive-bred Yellow Assessor is the toughest little SOB I've ever seen! I got this fish 2 months ago and he's already survived three traumatic experiences.
Upon arrival I floated his bag in the QT tank. Somehow he jumped out of a small hole in the top of the bag and did a five foot header to the floor, where I nearly stepped on him when I came back to mix some tank water with the bag water. I picked him up and plopped him into the tank. 24 hours later he has Ich! Grrrrr. Obviously caught it at the LFS. Treated him with Cupramine and he remained in QT for 8 weeks. After the 8 weeks he was fat and healthy so into the 90g he goes. The Coral Beauty, (the little dink), immediately gives him a hard time and the Assessor spends most of his time hiding under a large Torch Coral coming out at feeding time only. After a few days the CB accepts him and everything is fine. Came home from work today and go to change the filter sock in the sump and find the Assessor in it. I don't know why I looked in it but I'm glad I did: Otherwise he would have gone through the washing machine in a few days. Pop him back into the tank and away he goes on his merry way. If anyone is looking for an indestructible little fish I highly recommend these little guys. Can't kill them! P.S. I betcha the little bugger would have made it through the washing machine too.
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